Applied early enough, even a fraction of a m/s change of velocity would give us a miss.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
ipedia know-it-alls,....
Since James Arthur lectures us about economics, when what he knows about ec onomics is derived from long-ago lectures from somebody who through that Ke ynes was dangerously new-fangled, the posting was already irony-heavy.
You do have to appreciate the chutzpa of somebody who prides himself on tak ing the founding tax evaders seriously, and getting his economic philosophy
reactionary back them.
Putting up with his pretensions to being well-informed takes more effort.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
In a dark night (Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:49:52 -0800 (PST)) it happened Bill Sloman wrote in :
It is late and I should not make much noise. So to make it short You are the most nil output babbler I have come across on Usenet. Not only are you already brain dead, you never design anything and never have all by yourself. You have no imagination and obviously try to hide you could not hack chemistry.. so here is the noise, forever PLONK.
Now that will save me time.
Anyone bothering to reply to sloman will now become invisible too to me too.
Please stay down under and I hope you fall off. :-)
That makes putting up with your abjectly presumptuous holier than thou affect a real chore by comparison.
You are not only NOT holier than anyone here, but you are also less intelligent than even Roy was.
All you do is muddy up the group, and the fact that you do it deliberately sullies the entire human race. You will stand naked before Christ, and you will likely get cast into the lake of fire.
Is that like "so sue me"?
Which is why my name is on three patents? Your problem is complacent ignorance, and misplaced self-satisfaction.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
AlwaysWrong in vintage form.
If Christ exists, and even if he did, it's an open question as to whether he'd behave as organised religion would like us to believe.
Your excuse - in the unlikely event of that kind of final judgement - will be brain-damaged stupidity. Mine will be more along the lines of "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
John Fields still seems to be president of Austin Instruments in Austin, as he was when I first started posting here more than a decade or so ago.
krw had to climb out of the sewer that used to be his life and move interstate into a new sewer (he's in it, after all) to keep on working. John Fields seems to have done better.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
There is no historical evidence for that. In the short term, civilisations aim towards order - but every civilisation or culture we know of has had periods of instability or chaos. Sometimes it is due to outward influences (such as neighbouring civilisations, or natural phenomena), other times due to inward influences (such as gradually increasing imbalances provoking revolution). Civilisations and cultures are, therefore, chaotic systems, even if they go through periods of order.
John L. has plenty of weird and unrealistic ideas, but he makes an effort to discuss them in a reasonable and adult fashion. His theories may be highly unlikely (IMHO, of course), but they can sometimes provoke interesting thoughts and discussions. It is a shame that some people find it necessary to respond with unwarranted insults and pettiness. Please either join in the discussion in a sensible manner, or stop making such inane posts.
On a sunny day (Sun, 01 Mar 2015 13:13:03 +0100) it happened David Brown wrote in :
Interesting thesis, but depending on what you call 'civilization' perhaps not quite true.
And this indeed converges to ever more rules, sort of crystallizes. When it becomes like a crystal, nobody can move in it anymore, to many rules and regulations (and lawyers), then revolution, anarchy HAS to follow, or people simply die, or become stupid zombies, puppets of a system. That is the end of 'advanced' so it is when resulting in such outcomes no longer a civilization. At that point I think J.F. is right. It is not correct to call anything YOU do not understand 'chaotic'.
We see this happening in the US, it sure was 'advanced' 40 years ago when reaching the moon, but now all it is is people rubbing glass mirrors, the latest app, while they cannot do basic math, are too fat to walk, are scared of matches and IS under the bed, and monitored like a child 24/7 to see what they are up to. And a lower IQ faster reproducing strain taking over. And its decisions show. Sure you can fire a professor who measures the IQ to be lower, but that even makes you more stupid. I know Chinese on average have a higher IQ than Europeans, and especially N Americans, but that means I can learn something. Not only the political system is better than the stalemate demonrat republican wars, they also are less hampered by silly for profit religious leaders.
It remains a point of discussion, after 'civilization' what is the definition of 'advanced'.
Now Russia can still go up to the IS, US needs a Russian space taxi, China has its own space station, European social system is better than the American one, 'merrica has huge loans from Japan, China, etc, so advanced? No I think not. US have nukes, but so has everybody and their cat these days. They could not win Vietnam, behave like a wild animal all over the world, no long term vision, no clear line, mm yes, it seems you are right, they have become chaotic.. Or always were? Or it is the end that is near? I think the last. The crystal is breaking. All that is needed now is some rain, and the salt of US 'civilization' will all be washed away. :-)
I think that you are a goddamned horseblindered idiot.
You have no clue what a "clear line" is. much less any clue as to who may or may not be following one.
Idiots like you should have never been allowed to play with the toys intelligent folks like us made for the world.
I can't figure out how someone with such a bent perception as yours ever made it past 25.
Maybe in your little pussified corner of the world... but you wouldn't last ten minutes over here.
What country do you live in? Have you ever lived in the US?
On a sunny day (Sun, 1 Mar 2015 09:52:03 -0500) it happened "Tom Del Rosso" wrote in :
Have you ever learned to quote who and what you are replying to? And WILL you ever learn?
So your answer is "no". Why didn't you just own up to your ignorance?
U.S. enjoyed the advantage of European immigration that gave it most of the technological advances and skilled workforce for which it's best known.
On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 9:02:01 AM UTC-5, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno wrote: < snip>
You couldn't make it out of elementary school in Europe, not in the public system anyway. In their world it's best to start your kind out as shoe shine apprentice early.
Iz it zafe? --Christian Szell, Marathon Man
The proliferation of texting and social networks, the dissolution of marriage, the migration to giant cities, the new Islamic and Russian and Chinese militancy, all were surprises along the path to peace and plenty.
Electronic system design begins with deliberately generating tons of "weird and unrealistic" ideas. If you're lucky, you can do it as a group activity with like/crazy minded colleagues, multiplying the weirdness. Explore the far nooks and crannies of the n-dimensional solution space. Then apply genuine skill and quantitative reasoning to pluck out the few ideas that would actually work. You might just wind up with what everybody already knows works - ooh, an NPN cascode! - or you might invent something radical and fun. If you are instantly hostile to unconventional ideas, you won't be invited to the next session.
There's a big difference between amateurs coming up with crazy ideas, as compared to professionals doing same. The pros are more likely to wind up with something sellable.
Worth reading: "The Idea Factory" by White.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
The US is getting better over time. Lifespans are up, crime is down, more people are doing what they want to do. We keep having babies. We are absorbing tens of millions of immigrants, which creates some economic and social stresses, but will, as in the past, be a good thing long-term.
The US is doing OK. Europe not so well, at present.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
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